"Tempting Suggestible Young Men": Pater, Pedagogy, Pederasty
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| Year of publication | 2005 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Scientific Papers of the University of Pardubice, Series C, 10, 2004 |
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| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | Walter Pater; Victorian Pedagogy; Marius the Epicurean; Winckelmann; Gerard Manley Hopkins; Johann Joachim Winckelmann; Pederasty; Paederasty; Uranian; Homoeroticism; Victorian Literature; Gay Studies |
| Description | This article considers biographical and textual materials relating to the Victorian pederastic pedagogy of Walter Pater, an Oxford don, author, and aesthetic critic. Emphasis is placed on the ways that his novel "Marius the Epicurean" and essay "Winckelmann" serve to elucidate this merging of pederasty and pedagogy, as well as the influence of this merging on his former student and later friend Gerard Manley Hopkins, one of the premier Victorian poets, a poet whose "Epithalamion" provides the fullest Uranian encapsulation of Pater's elaborate and decadent pedagogy. |